Michael Peddio - FORESTA BY36

Directly from the Studio of Michael Peddio, oil on canvas in original cotton canvas and a unique specimen, mounted on a wooden frame, ready to be hung. Dimensions: 100 cm in height, 70 cm in width, 2 cm thick. Unframed. Signed on the back. Published in a catalog. Executing technique: oil painting and mixed media on canvas. Sent with BRT-DHL-UPS or similar. Hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity included in the shipment. Artwork dimensions: 100 cm x 70 cm x 2 cm.

“Foresta BY36” This work belongs to the cycle of “Forests” and was cataloged and exhibited in 2022 at the Radium Artis Gallery in the exhibition “No Time No Space,” curated by Alberto Navilli.
“Foresta BY36” represents one of the more mature declensions of Michael Peddio’s expressive research. The surface is crossed by a lattice of organic lines that intertwine like living nerves, building a dense, layered, almost pulsating space. The dominant red is not a simple background color but an energetic field: an emotional space that envelops and supports the vertical structure of the trees. The acid greens, deep blues, and dark glazes emerge in contrast, generating tension and depth.
The composition is compact yet dynamic. The trunks bend, seek each other, overlap, creating an internal rhythm that leads the gaze upward. The painting material is worked with determination: stratifications, incisions, and glazes build a living surface capable of reacting to light.
The work sits in a phase of full technical awareness by the artist, in which gesture, color, and structure coexist in balance. Published in the official catalog of the show. Work exhibited in a curatorially certified context. A piece with strong chromatic identity and recognizable style, belonging to a central cycle in the artist’s production.

Michael Peddio: My free expression is not confined by a preconceived idea, but conveyed through color and form as the only tool, a return to a primordial form of art. The absence of drawing is, for me, a prerogative of the indeterminacy of the work at its birth; as in life and especially in the times we live, there can be no certainty of outcome for any situation. My painting evolves from the white canvas to a final, unpredictable outcome. For me there exists only the acceptance of art as an unpredictable and uncontrollable process.

Michael Peddio has taken his first steps since childhood, inspired by his father Riccardo, a painter. The turning point comes around 30, thanks to meeting master Teobaldo Cattini, a Reggio painter of the macchiaiolo school, who opens the doors to painting. A great source of inspiration and strength from the former boxer painter. In 2012, the meeting with artist Barbara Nicoletto, his current partner, opens the doors to a second artistic season and to artistic maturity. Between 2013 and 2014 painting begins to take on an inner meaning. Figurative art begins to give way to introspection. Inner force takes over and the canvas becomes a crack, with the passing years increasingly devoid of filters, increasingly free of reticence in showing one’s I. Strength and weaknesses are shown without shame. The man is naked, without masks.
In April 2016 he is noticed by critic Daniel Buso and, together with his partner Barbara Nicoletto, he exhibits in: Il Museo in Vetrina, a Bipersonal show at the CA’ DEI CARRARESI Museum in Treviso, a very important location rarely granted to an emerging artist.
In 2018 Michael Peddio reaches painterly maturity. His paintings are free from conditioning, expressing with harmony and beauty all the raw reality that the artist wants shown.
We find strength and harmony. We also find positivity in tragedy. We find beauty.
Also since 2018 the artist collaborates with Galleria REART, opening to the art world and interacting with other artists on the national scene. We see him exhibit and also curate shows. He founded with artist Barbara Nicoletto and Giorgio Ferretti the movement of the Cromatisti. They gather in a Factory, a place for discussion and work.
In 2020 the meeting with Angela Lazzaretti, owner of Radium Artis Gallery, is a great source of exchange with the national art world. The exhibition in Pietrasanta at Radium Artis Gallery was the debut in serious art, at 46, giving him the visibility his works deserve.
In 2021 the meeting with critic and curator Alberto Navilli opens a further evolutionary steep, seeing his art grow ever more toward an increasingly raw and uncompromising spontaneity.

Most significant exhibitions for painting works:

2007 - Torre Orologio – Group show - San Polo D’Enza
2014 - Talking About Art – group show in Camogli at Art Gallery
2014 - Solo Exhibition at Comunità Monte di Portofino
2014 - Madonna dei Gotti – group show curated by the Municipality of Camogli - Liguria
2015 - Le mers e le Mond Lontains – Solo show at the Municipality of Campegine
2016 - Il Museo in Vetrina Bipersonal at CA’ DEI CARRARESI Museum in Treviso
2017 - Galleria REART Christmas group show
2018 - Reggia di Rivalta, Group show at Palazzo Ducale. Rivalta
2018 - Group show at Villa Castello La Tenuta di Caccia in Regnano
2018 - Arte Fiera di Padova shows for Galleria REART
2019 - 500 Leonardo Forever – Leonardo’s quincentennial at Tecnopolo – Reggio Emilia
2019 - ArtParmaFair 2019 – Parma Art Fair showing at REART Gallery
2019 - CHRONOS – Tripersonale, at Galleria REART in Reggio Emilia
2020 - Pietrasanta - Radium Artis Gallery - Solo show
2021 - I Quattro Elementi – Radium Artis Gallery – Tripersonale – San Martino in Rio
2024 - EXIT - Galleria ArtEkyp - Tripersonale - MODENA

Bibliography

2019 – CHRONOS Catalog of Works curated and critiqued by Dr. Giuseppe Berti
2021 - I QUATTRO ELEMENTI, curated by Dr. Alberto Navilli
2024 - EXIT – Exhibition Catalog – Modena